Celebrated Zimbabwean author Charles Mungoshi has died.
Mungoshi had been ill for ten years, from a neurological condition to which he succumbed this morning, at Parirenyatwa Hospital.
He was a prolific and multi-award winning novelist , poet , short story writer , actor who was internationally recognized and celebrated. He published 18 books , which include Waiting for the Rain ( 1975), Ndiko Kupindana Kwemazuva(1975), Makunun’unu Maodza Moyo (1970).
Mungoshi twice won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize of Best Book in Africa and was subsequently invited to meet the Queen of England , Queen Elizabeth.One of his poems was curetted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as a permanent display as public art at their new headquarters in Seattle, Washington, in US ,2011